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By Gopal SharmaREUTERS • Monday February 17, 2014 6:56 AM

KATMANDU, Nepal — Rescuers found the wreckage today of a passenger plane that crashed into the
side of a snow-covered mountain in Nepal, killing all 18 people on board, including a small child,
authorities said.

Moving slowly on foot through thick snow, rescuers pulled out 13 bodies from the crash site and
were scouring the area for the remains of the others, said police official Bam Bahadur
Bhandari.

A helicopter was able to spot the wreckage on a mountainside near Machinelek, about 160 miles
west of the capital, Katmandu, a day after the Nepal Airlines Twin Otter lost contact in bad
weather.

The plane was flying from Katmandu to Jumla, about 250 miles to the west, when it made an
unscheduled fuel stop in the city of Pokhara, about a third of the way into the journey. Visibility
was poor because of snow, rain and fog, Bhandari said.

Bhandari said the remote area was covered by snow and it took rescuers several hours to reach
there by foot from the nearest town.

Police and soldiers were trying to construct a temporary helipad for rescue helicopters to
land.

The de Havilland Canada-manufactured aircraft had 15 passengers and three crew members on board.
One of the passengers was believed to be a Danish national, while the rest on board were Nepalese.
The plane was 43 years old.

In May, another plane of the same make and model operated by state-owned Nepal Airlines crashed
while attempting to land at a mountain airstrip in northern Nepal, injuring all 21 people on
board.